This Project aimed to improve understanding of how and to what extent certain barriers keep the seafood industry from making substantive progress towards building greater stakeholder and community trust. The Project was designed to meet this aim by researching obstacles to, and enablers of,...
Following the successes achieved from the 77/78 F.I.R.T.A. project "Design and development of a new purse seining method and equipment" a further grant of $27,580 was allocated from F.I.R.T.A. to introduce the technique into the pelagic fisheries. As the Mackerel fishery is still in need of...
The project was developed in consultation with the Australian Fisheries Management Authority and State/Territory fisheries agencies. The idea of a publicly available set of standards or guidelines for marine fishery management agencies has been under discussion within fisheries agencies for some...
Amongst
Australian fisheries managers, a persistent challenge exists to facilitate
regular and coordinated professional engagement and exchange between
Commonwealth, Territory and State level fisheries managers working on common
fisheries problems. There is also an absence of professional...
This report presents estimates of the economic contribution of Australia’s fisheries and aquaculture industries to the Australian community for 2017/18. It forms part of the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry Contributions Study (FRDC project 2017-210) which was funded by the...